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Exactly. Bill Gates built the world (Windows OS) we work in. So all sound-minded individuals are 100% happy he is the richest person in the world.
And, anyone else, don't be acting like you are running Linux or some other OS. That's all just lies, because it still isn't:THe Year of the Linux Desktop

Errm, I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS. In fact, the core NT based version was written by a team that came in from VMS and NT went on to underpin a lot of what we now know as Windows. As for those of us who still use Linux systems, Bill had very little to do with it.

So, while I still love coding Windows applications, I love it when people are accurate with their facts. The pedant in me gets upset when people play fast and loose like that.

I think the only troll here is Bill. He's all like "Maybe I'll NOT be the richest man this year..." and other rich people are all happy like "Yay, we finally stand a chance to be richest!" and then Bill is just like "LOL, just kidding n00bs!" and then he donates half of his wealth to charity and STILL is the richest person in the world and all the other almost richest people in the world are like "Awww, man that Bill did it again Bill is like the bully of the richest-people-in-the-world-playground. But I ain't hatin'

This is NOT a programming question. I just figured that since a few of you are programmers, you might be interested in what I'm doing.

I made a preliminary test run of my Sql Express Agent Service code. This is exercising the Timer agents (agents that run at a specified interval (or on a certain day/date). Multiple agent tasks can be implemented via app.config entries. The intervals for the three tasks represented below are set at 1 minute (Interval Task 01), two minutes (Interval Task 2), and 3 minutes (Interval Task 03).

Each add-in module will be hot pluggable, and will be reconfigurable via its config file, as well as reconfigurable tasks - while the service is running. Currently there are three supported agent classes:

One or more of each type of agent can be configured for each plug-in module.

I've restarted this project from scratch five times so far, and I think I've finally got a solid start. The absolute biggest hurdle has been abstracting behavior to lessen the amount of work that's required to write for new modules.

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. AdamsYou must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von BraunOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein